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[July 20th, 2005] HIDEOUT FALLOUT: Last week, Washington County issued a ruling that shut down concerts at the natural grassy splendor that is Horning's Hideout because the land in North Plains is located too far from a freeway. All together now: "LAME." Those looking forward to the Hideout's yearly festivals, though, need not worry. Both the Northwest World Reggae Festival (July 22-24) and the Pickathon Roots Music Festival (Aug. 12-13) have been relocated to Pudding River in Woodburn, while the Shakedown Festival (Aug. 26-28), featuring Michael Franti and Galactic , has been moved to Columbia Meadows. Oddly, the String Cheese Incident will still be allowed to play the Hideout, Aug. 4-7. Apparently Washington County officials like the Cheese.

PHILANTHROPIC MARTINI: Portland's homeless-run newspaper, Street Roots, is going to have its first foreign correspondent thanks to Pink Martini frontman Thomas Lauderdale . Lauderdale is coughing up enough frequent-flier miles to send an impoverished Street Roots vendor named Colleen to Scotland to cover international transient soccer's premier event: the Homeless World Cup .

GOING BI-COASTAL: Mark Russell (below), former executive director of New York's Performance Space 122, has been named guest artistic director for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art festivals in 2006 and 2007. Russell's new boss is Victoria Frey, who earned a title upgrade from PICA's managing director to executive director, replacing departing founder Kristy Edmunds. "I'm going to become schizophrenic, if it hasn't happened already," says Russell of his plan to split time between P-town and NYC.